We are 100% Biodegradable

:: Figtree Factory Studio s.l. is a company which, since its birth, had ecological sustainability in its focus. Of course, that’s what all companies say. Or almost. It’s the new thing. What’s modern. What’s trendy.

Our decision took us one step further; we would design and produce sustainable footwear not only in its composition (biodegradable) but in its full production process, machinery, transport, primary package, secondary package and a long list of considerations.

Words have both a semantic value as well as a legal or technical value. The same goes for a biodegradable polymer. It is not for us to evaluate that all comes from Nature, in the sense that nothing comes from outer space. But manufacture, human intervention, in some cases creates damages incompatible with that Nature in its broader and common sense.

For example: one meter. We all know what we mean when we say “1 meter” The definition we engineers like, however, is “The length travelled by light in vacuum in 1/299.792.458th of a second” Honest! There’s another one not bad at all: 1 m = 6,19 x 1034 Planck units.

Biodegradable includes a semantic field meaning “biodegradable degradation”. Absorbed by Nature. And with that in mind several European Norms were developed: year 2000 the EN 13432; in 2003 EN 14046; later, in 2005, the Industry defined ISO 14855-1. And we, in 01M, apply all this very strictly not only in the principal Polymer we use in our shoe, but also on the beautiful and flashy colors which enlighten the final product.

Both in the meter discussion as well as in the “biodegradable” one, our understanding is common sense and legal description.

We didn’t stop there. The practical primary package, transparent blister enabling compact and easy transport (ecology!) is also biodegradable. And the carton of our transport boxes, and our very useful Store Kit Shelf. Everything. Even the machines with which we produce were analyzed from the energy consumption to be able to confirm that we chose those with the shortest energy inputs and rubbish output.

Maybe some of our friends and customers are tempted, occasionally, that our 01M shoes are expensive. On the contrary. Not only because we are using specific raw materials. Also because proportionally they have many more uses and purpose tan any technical or conventional shoe. And when one decides that his 01M has finished its cycle, that they are done, they return into nature like Hevea resin. Only a common and decide action from us all will manage that these product find the necessary distribution to ensure that others don’t litter.